Crossword clues for mazda
mazda
- CX-9 automaker
- Zoroastrian deity
- Suzuki rival
- RX-8 manufacturer
- RX-8 maker
- Publisher of Zoom-Zoom magazine
- Protegé, for one
- Protege creator
- Nissan competitor
- Motor company headquartered in Hiroshima
- Maker of the Protegé
- Maker of the Miata
- Maker of Miatas
- Japanese carmaker since 1931
- Hisakazu Imaki's car company
- Hiroshima Municipal Stadium sponsor
- CX-9 maker
- CX-5 maker
- Company with the slogan “Zoom Zoom”
- Car company that makes the Miata
- Car company named after the Zoroastrian god
- Automaker named for a god of wisdom
- "Driving Matters" sloganeer
- Protege maker
- Major employer in Hiroshima
- Auto whose name is derived from a Zoroastrian deity
- "Zoom-zoom" sloganeer
- ProtegГ©, for one
- RX-8 carmaker
- Maker of the ProtegГ©
- Toyota competitor
- Miata maker
- MX-5 maker
- Auto with the slogan "Zoom-zoom"
- Name on a bulb
- Zoroastrian's god
- Honda rival
- Japanese automaker
- Nissan rival
- Tribute maker
- Japanese carmaker
- Tribute creator
- Popular import
- "Zoom-zoom" car company
- Miata automaker
- Hiroshima-based automaker
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wikipedia
, commonly referred to just as Mazda, is a Japanese automaker based in Fuchū, Aki District, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan.
In 2007, Mazda produced almost 1.3 million vehicles for global sales, the majority of which (nearly 1 million) were produced in the company's Japanese plants, with the remainder coming from a variety of other plants worldwide. In 2011, Mazda was the fifteenth biggest automaker by production worldwide.
Mazda was a trademarked name registered by General Electric in 1909 for incandescent light bulbs. The name was used from 1909 through 1945 in the United States by GE and Westinghouse. Mazda brand light bulbs were made for decades after 1945 outside the USA. The company chose the name due to its association with Ahura Mazda, the transcendental and universal God of Zoroastrianism whose name means light of wisdom (Ahura = light, Mazda = wisdom) in the Avestan language.
In 1909 the Mazda name was created for the tungsten filament light bulb. GE sold bulbs under this trademark starting in 1909. GE promoted the mark as identifying tungsten filament bulbs with predictable performance and life expectancy. GE also licensed the Mazda name, socket sizes, and tungsten filament technology to other manufacturers to establish a standard for lighting. Bulbs were soon sold by many manufacturers with the Mazda name licensed from GE, including British Thomson-Houston in the United Kingdom, Toshiba in Japan, and GE's chief competitor Westinghouse.
Tungsten-filament bulbs of the Mazda type were initially more costly than carbon filament bulbs, but used less electricity. Often electrical utilities would trade new lamps for consumers' burned-out bulbs. In at least one case the authority regulating energy rates required the utility to use only tungsten bulbs so as not to inflate customer's energy use.
The company dropped the campaign in 1945. GE's patents on the tungsten filament lamp expired in the late 1930s and other forms of lighting were becoming more important than incandescent bulbs. GE stopped licensing the trademark to other manufacturers, although it continued to renew the trademark registration up to 1990. The registration on trademark no. 77,779 expired in 2000. Today, the Mazda name is mostly associated with the Mazda automobile manufacturer of Japan (which coexisted with Toshiba's Mazda bulbs in its early years). The Mazda trademark is now split between the Japanese manufacturer where it applies to automobiles (including automobile lights and batteries) and GE for non-automotive uses.
GE's Mazda bulbs were manufactured in Northeast Minneapolis. From the 1930s until 2013, the building was headquarters for Minneapolis Public Schools.
Mazda may refer to:
- Mazda, a Japanese automobile manufacturer
- Ahura Mazda, the primary deity of Zoroastrianism
- Mazda (light bulb), a trademarked name used on incandescent light bulbs
Usage examples of "mazda".
The Persians, who worshipped Ahura Mazda, the Lord of Light, built temples around them and tended the Sacred Fires.
The Persians say the Mahrkagir has turned Drujan from the worship of Ahura Mazda, the Lord of Light, to Angra Mainyu, the Lord of Darkness.
And Ahura Mazda made no protest, but let his people die beneath their swords.
A Magus-in-training, it was he who first put forth the notion of turning away from Ahura Mazda, the Lord of Light, to embrace the worship of Angra Mainyu.
Sacred Fire of Ahura Mazda, a living, twisting thing of flame, gold and saffron and red, stretching toward the domed ceiling.
Jahanadar, the Land of Fires, reclaimed its ancient title, and the hand of Ahura Mazda reached out to reclaim his own.
Triton was far from the light of Ahura Mazda, so six hundred years ago those who were brave crossed the great dark and settled here, under the Yellow Sun.
Huge paintings adorned the inner walls, depicting the gods of the Persians, the mighty Ahura Mazda, the Wise Lord, and the minor daevas that served him.
As on the night in the captured city of Persepolis when he had led a drunken mob of torch-bearers to destroy one of the great wonders of the world, the beautifully carved wooden temple to Ahura Mazda containing the works of the prophet, Zoroaster.
The World Creator, according to this view, was Ahura Mazda, a god of truth and light, whose original creation was perfect.
World Creator, according to this view, was Ahura Mazda, a god of truth and light, whose original creation was perfect.
I would fool all this great city with the Heart of Ahura Mazda, and with the great exhibition of the power of the jewel.
When next the Sun, the divine promise of Ahura Mazda, mounts his throne, we shall be free, every one of us, and once more in the Empire.
By the Sacred Spirit of great Ahura Mazda, thought Bill hopefully.
Eventually religions sprang up in which the chief god, the god of light, the Sun god, was called Ahura Mazda.